To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

When you´re tired after a long day, there´s nothing like a getaway...You sit down with your book and everything changes.

They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.

Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.